Taken orally its LD50 is about 20 milligrams per kilogram of bodyweight, about 8 castor beans worth of the poison, but if it's injected, like the way Markov got it, it's just 1 tiny microgram per kilogram.
His insecurities were rooted in his sickly childhood and exacerbated by premature baldness, pockmarked skin, prominent nose and later, scarring from gunshot wounds.
Sue turned her head and saw an ill-favoured man, closely cropped, with a broad-faced, pock-marked woman on his arm, ruddy with liquor and the satisfaction of being on the brink of a gratified desire.
Paul swung the telescope to scan the far wall of the basin, seeing the pockmarked cliffs, the slides that marked the tombs of so many of his father's troopers.
The soldier, a Nijhni peasant with a red and pock-marked face, placed the paper into the cuff of his coat sleeve, and, smiling, winked to his muscular comrade.
Even the schoolboys were embarrassed at the sight of the old man's swarthy, pockmarked face, his lank figure, invariably clothed in a sort of scanty grey dresscoat.
A sallow man with a pocked doughy face stepped through the cellar door, holding a butcher's heavy cleaver. " Three, are you? We got horsemeat enough for three, The horse was old and tough, but the meat's still fresh" .